The Italians modeled their academies after the Platonic Academy in Athens; the Germans, in turn, based their "sodalitates" on the Italian academies thanks primarily to Celtis, who is also credited with having founded academies in Cracow and Olmitz.

Other essays take up particular aspects of Agricola's achievement, such as his speech, "In laudem philosophiae" (Wim van Dooren, 67-82); his De inventione dialectice (Lothar Mundt, 83-146) and its use in German arts curricula during the sixteenth century; his commentary on Cicero's De lege Manilia (Lutz Claren and Joachim Huber, 147-80); his treatise on education, De formando studio (Jurgen Busch, 355-85); and his inspiration of Conrad Celtis, who returned to Heidelberg in 1495 to found a sodality (Wilhelm Kuhlmann, 387-412).

He enjoyed a certain fame among German and Dutch humanists around the year 1500, and he was a friend and associate of the German archhumanist - as he styled himself - Conrad Celtis in Nuremberg and through him had access to court circles.

The study site is a flat area of 400 ha within the Biosphere Reserve Parque Costero del Sur (MABUNESCO), composed of semi-open grasslands with several patches of low woodlands mainly dominated by native tree species including Celtis ehrenbergiana, Scutia buxifolia, and Schinus longifolius.

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